OAR 407-025-0020: No Funding in Sheltered Workshops

(1) The Department shall not purchase or fund employment services or comprehensive vocational assessments for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities that occur in segregated or sheltered workshop settings. Employment services must be designed to support obtaining, maintaining, or advancing in competitive integrated employment. (2) For the purpose of this rule, “sheltered workshop” means a facility in which individuals with disabilities are congregated for the purpose of receiving employment services and performing work tasks for pay at the facility. (a) A sheltered workshop primarily employs individuals with disabilities, including intellectual or developmental disabilities, with the exception of service support staff. (b) A sheltered workshop is a fixed site that is owned, operated, or controlled by a provider agency and where an individual has few or no opportunities to interact with people who are not individuals with disabilities, not including paid support staff. (c) A sheltered workshop is not small group employment in an integrated employment setting and is not otherwise an integrated employment setting.